<p>The FSSP is still taking applications but I don't know if the program is that necessary or not. Would I be missing something great if I didn't attend it? Also, there is a week between when the program ends and when the dorms open. Is there a way that I can stay at UCSB for that week, or do I have to go back home and then go back to the campus again?</p>
<p>It’s you again dchau D: </p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>To answer your questions (I did FSSP myself two summers ago). . .</p>
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<li><p>You will be missing something great, yes. But you won’t miss it–your fall quarter here will be great enough on its own. </p></li>
<li><p>Dunno if you can stay at UCSB for that week (I just went home for that week). You can, however, find a friend’s place to crash in for that week.</p></li>
<li><p>Is that program necessary? Yes and no. </p></li>
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<p>Yes, because summer is the quarter where classes are small, weather is warm, and intimacy between students is at its best. And. . .you are getting a head start in getting accustomed to academic and social life at UCSB.</p>
<p>No, because at the most, you will only be a quarter ahead of your peers, and you can just as easily be accustomed to the academic and social life at UCSB in fall quarter, with the hundreds of fellow freshmen. </p>
<p>In the end. . .you will miss out at all if you refrain from doing FSSP. </p>
<p>But–and I’m sure all the FSSP’ers agree with me–there is that warm feeling from our experience at FSSP that can never be relived again. We all fondly remember our time there. . .</p>
<p>there is nothing that ****es me off more than a freshman who has completed the same/more classes than me, like math for instance. It’s jealousy… I WISH! i had knew exactly what i wanted to major in right from the moment i graduated high school. That way I could graduate before i was 21, or atleast have the option to take easy classes while getting an internship/research group, or be able to double major/minor. Summer start is not just a single quarter ahead of your peers. you’ll see once you get here how everyone is secretly in competition with each other. that head start is a major advantage. Cant think of a single possible reason why i wouldnt go to summer school. plus you know you want to move out of your parents pad, before you get older and they expect you to move out with your shiny new degree.</p>
<p>tfizzle, plenty of my friends are on track to graduate in three years, even if they did not have a headstart from FSSP. </p>
<p>No need to be ****ed. Your destiny is in your own hands.</p>